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PINNED Enable inventory reservation automatic cron task for specific site
Advantage : Enable the cron for specific site which is necessary. Summary: In Maximo, we have more than 50 Active sites. When we try to enable inventory reservation automatic cron task for specific site, There is no Cron Parameters are available....

IBM MAS - Manage (Base)

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Job Plan Conditions should work with PM/JP/Route

Currently, Job Plan Conditions aren't honored when WOs are created from a PM that has a Job Plan and a Route. It would be helpful if Maximo could be enhanced so that Job Plan Conditions work in that scenario.
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under consideration

Easier way to run cron task on demand

It would be helpful if there were an easier way to run a cron task on demand. Currently, we can edit the scheduled time of a cron task so that it runs in a couple of minutes from now. But that isn't ideal, because we need to write down the real sc...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Object Structures: Exclude Attributes Mode should work for Report Object Structures too

In the Object Structures application: Currently, Exclude Attributes Mode isn't designed to work for Report Object Structures (Consumed By = REPORTING). Exclude Attributes Mode is only is designed to work where Consumed By = INTEGRATION. See case #...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Ad-hoc report text fields: Align-left instead of align-right (optional setting)

Maximo aligns ad-hoc report text fields to the right, instead of to the left. Screenshot: https://i.stack.imgur.com/KrbtZ.png That's different from most software platforms. Other programs like Excel, MS Access, and SQL clients align text to the le...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under consideration

DB Config: Only discard pending changes for specific objects

When making changes to several objects in DB Config: Often, we want to discard the changes to one of the objects before applying the changes. Currently, there isn't a way to discard the changes to specific objects. Instead, we need to discarding t...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

Importing a view: Don't make the attribute fields be read-only

When importing a view: (not to be confused with creating a view in Maximo directly via the UI) With imported views, there is a limitation in the DB Config application —> Attributes tab where the attribute fields become arbitrarily read-only, de...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

BIRT Support for converting base64 images pasted into Task LD field to print to pdf

Maximo allows images to be pasted into Job Plan Task Long Description field, but when you attempt to print to pdf, the images aren't output. The IBM method is to Attach the images using the "Insert Image" URL link feature. While this works, it def...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Application XML: List of possible XML properties

It would be helpful if IBM could publish a list of properties that are available for application XML. For example, how would we find out about table control properties like "collapsewhenempty"? There doesn't seem to be any documentation on the pro...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Decommissioned Assets in Planning->Routes is selectable

In Planning->Routes when you press: Select Assets, Assets with status : Decommissioned is visible. Only Assets in selectable status should be visible
about 6 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Return of consignment items to storeroom from work order

When a consignment item (received through a PO) with cost type as FIFO issue to work order and then returned back to store location do not have MATRECTRANSID reference and it's cost is also not being tracked properly
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Future consideration